I started a boatneck baby sweater for charity the other day, and I just finished weaving in ends and sewing the buttons on. Why is it that the finishing work always takes longer than knitting it in the first place?

Not entirely sure the yellow buttons work, but I didn't have any buttons that matched any better.

This was a pattern of my own design (shape-wise; the colorwork is from a punchcard), done on my flatbed knitting machine with sock yarn from my stash. This sweater's so easy! Perfect for charity knitting because of the lack of shaping, and I thought boatneck would be good because it's easy to pull over a baby's big head.

I can write up a pattern in about 10 minutes for the knitting machine, but writing the hand knitting equivalent might take me a while. Shaping is easy, but I'll have to work out the instructions for the slip stitch color work.